Colin Chapman
President of the NSW Branch
He heads a new council that includes Kathryn Savery as treasurer, Robert Pritchard as vice president, and Duncan Webb as secretary. Louisa Graham, a former manager of the NSW branch, returns to the council as events co-ordinator. Other newcomers are Shirley Scott, the AIIA’s national research director, Jennifer Allen, deputy director of DFAT in Sydney, and Will Hobart, a 2010 AIIA emerging scholar. Re-elected were Jocelyn Chan, William Porges and Glen Robinson.
Colin, a former foreign editor of the London Sunday Times and BBC TV economics correspondent, returned to Australia in 2003 after more than a decade in the senior management of the Financial Times group. Previously, in Australia, he worked for the ABC as executive producer of PM and as finance correspondent, for The Australian as deputy editor, and for the Washington Post. He has taken an active role in creating courses and training young journalists in political reporting in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. Colin has written several books, and is now a writer, broadcaster and television producer, and vice president, Asia Pacific for STRATFOR, a private intelligence company
Colin Chapman has been the president of the AIIA New South Wales since July 2010.
Colin is a former foreign editor of the London Sunday Times and BBC TV economics correspondent. He returned to Australia in 2003 after more than a decade in the senior management of the Financial Times group. Previously, in Australia, he worked for the ABC as executive producer of PM and as finance correspondent, for The Australian as deputy editor, and for the Washington Post.
He has taken an active role in creating courses and training young journalists in political reporting in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. Colin has written several books and is now a writer, broadcaster, television producer, and Vice President of Asia Pacific for STRATFOR, a private intelligence company.
